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Konx Om Pax
KONX OM PAX ESSAYS IN LIGHT BY ALEISTER CROWLEY LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE Y WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK: 3, EAST 14TH STREET SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA _ r TION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH O BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS I907
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24 KONX OM PAX all do first is to find the Fairy Prince to come and ride away with you, so don’t bother about the Serpent yet. That’s all. Explx'a't Opusmlum in Capz'tulo Quarto we! de Collegio Summo.
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viii KONX OM PAX solemn fool to assert that nothing ever was so plain, and (with a little luck) the rest of the solemn fools—brief, all England—to follow them: till Konx om Pax replace Reading without Tears in every Infant School. Yet, suppose this were to happen, how would the world be advanced? In no wise. For the brilliance wherein we walk will be but thick dark ness to all those who have not become so blind that light and darkness are akin. The light wherein I write is not the light of reason; it is not the darkness of unreason ; it is the …
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DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION xi To you, Konx Om Fax—Light in Extension—is your natural home. You have written these essays by my pen; not on you need I bestow them; but— To all and every person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
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28 KONX OM PAX THE MYSTERIOUS MATHERS in his great sketch, “THE FAMILY VAULT." (Mr. Mather: will borrow any required properties from the audience.) “I reside on Abiegnus, and my name is ‘ Flodden ' Iames. I am not up to small deceits or any sinful games: And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the bounder That broke up our Society—and also broke the founder l ” The Clippers . . . . Eccentrics. Happy Hal Barthe with Tim Urah and Ike Baker . . Quick Change Artists. Le Marbre . . . . Lightning Calculator. Mac and Mic . . . . Face Artist…
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8o KONX OM PAX 0 fool! not thus the Intimate Gives up its secret to the soul. Truth flies beyond, inviolate, And slips beside the glancing goal. Who probes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! co…
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102 KONX OM PAX He saw in every passer-by Black Magic and the Evil Eye, Interpreting the simplest act As being a Satanic Pact. Of course at times there were a few In some sort victims of the crew; For when his Countess coughed or sneezed, “ Obsessed! ” the poor old fellow wheezed. He sought the Mighty Powers of Good, Invoked the Great White Brotherhood. Like smart and punctual business men, They sent a man round there and then. How gladly reverent doth he greet The sage’s venerable feet! But in a while suspicion grows. “ This fellow, now, by Jo…
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74 KONX OM PAX Where witches whirl their flapping teats Still shrieking to the drum that beats Its monstrous call to flesh of man Hissing and bubbling in the pan— “ Hua is God” it spelt to me; “ There is none other God than He.” He conjures up the seas that swell Before the hosts of Gabriel Between the Lights in Ibis flight Who whirls the Sword and Scales of Right. The tall ship strikes: the rending roar 0f death devours the horrid war Where men dash women to the deck, Leave children wailing on the wreck. . . . Behold the lightning-‘5 jagged flash …
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86 KONX OM PAX It seems to tempt a man to swim. I have as sharp and straight and slim A blade whose glamour makes one reel And dazzles death upon the steel. Oh! the stiletto! supple joy— As if some soft Italian boy With all his slender strength alive Laughed in a deep Narcissus dive. I used to poise its light aloft Above Carlotta sleepy-soft. The dusky gold enamoured eyes And bloom of down would harmonize. She used to scold it in pretence Of envy of its excellence. We laughed—but not at the same joke. All girls are blind with their own smoke. A…
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88 KONX OM PAX With some most lucid miracle Of love too sweet to think or tell. “ Kiss me again before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns…
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76 KONX OM PAX He wrote in flame upon the grass “ This person is a perfect ass.” He vanished in a cloud of musk. He sent the demons of the dusk To ramp and rage about the links To tease me—Me, the stony Sphinx! I smiled; I bent them to my will; I set them dancing deosil, And singing with seraphic glee “There is none other God than He.” The devil saw that he had failed. He came back very draggle-tailed; And, poised above me in the air, Whined “Mr. Sphinx, now, is it fair? My business is to rack the bones Of saints like you and Mr. Jones! I’m paid…
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84 KONX OM PAX For you in heaven shall bloom and burgeon, And I in hell shall bowl and groan. Ahl God is an unskilful surgeon; We both shall weep to be alone! For we are one and may not part; And though we hurt, we love, believe mel Nor would I in my inmost heart 0f one of all your stabs bereave me. No man can hurt the indifferent stranger, No woman wound the casual friend. There is a glory born of danger; What anger gat, desire may end. Give me the phrenzy of your lip! My heart accepts your usurpature. Your body leaps beneath the whip; Our pai…
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xii KONX OM PAX While, on the other hand: St. Paul spoke up on the Hill of Mars To the empty-headed Athenians; But I would rather talk to the stars Than to empty-headed Athenians. It's only too easy to form a cult, To cry a crusade with " Deus Vult"— But you won't get much of a good result From empty-headed Athenians. The people of London much resemble Those empty-headed Athenians. I could very easily make them tremble, Those empty-headed Athenians. A pinch of Bible, a gallon of gas, And I, or any otherguess ass, Could bring to our mystical moo…
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108 KONX OM PAX THE POET BURY me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save. I brought them wisdom from above: Worship, and liberty, and love. They slew me for I did disparage Therefore Religion, Law, and Marriage. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! Arthur! said the big man, more tenderly than he had yet spoken, there was once a man like you. He wished your wish, not with‘tears, but with laughter; he had his wish, as you shall have yours. In spite of all, that nameless man is widely known as any in the…
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104 KONX OM PAX His leaky lordship they annoyed All through the immeasurable void —Until his pallid voice confessed Himself in league with all the rest. (The breathless children round me crowd. I pause. At last one says aloud: “But tell us how he got to glory! " —I’m very sorry. That’s the story. But what’s the moral? asks a big Girl with the makings of a prig. First. Golf is long, and life is fleeting: Only one Bogey is worth beating. Moral the Second (Quiet, girls!) A sane squire is worth ten mad earls. And, most important, Number Three: Every…
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82 KONX OM PAX Alas! the days of Christ are gone: The callous King supports the snub: Campaspe’s lips gush Lethe on The schoolboy-trickster in the Tub. O restless rats that gnaw the bones Of Aristophanes and Paul! Come up to me and Mr. Jones And see the rapture of it all! This moral sense is sorry stuff—— You take the peas—give me the pod! Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. Who is Mr. Jones? asked Denzil. We have heard of him from our friend here already. Mr. Jones, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones,…
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KONX OM PAX DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION WITH A NOTE ON OBSCURITY HEN the Neophyte enters upon the Path of Evil, there confront eth him the great angel Samael. In vain he saith that he is come from between the pillars and seeketh the hidden Knowledge in the Name of Adonai ; the angel answers him: “I am the Prince of Dark ness and of Evil. The wicked and rebellious man gazeth upon the face of Nature, and findeth therein naught but terror and obscurity; unto him it is but the darkness of the darkness, and he is but as a drunken man groping in…
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60 KONX OM PAX ll. Wednesday cardiac symptoms come; Thursday diabetic. Blow the fiddle, strum the drum! Friday I'm paretic. Chorus. m. If on Saturday my foes Join in legions serriedI Then, on Sunday, I suppose, I'll be beri-beriedl Chorus. One need not be intimately familiar with the Japanese character understand that Kwaw and his feat were forgotten in a very few day but a wealthy Daimio, with a taste for observation, took it into h head to inquire of Kwaw for what purpose he had entered the count in so strange a manner. It will simplify matter…
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96 KONX OM PAX Yet still the dying craftsman strove to work his lust and pain within The glittering avatar of sin that seemed to mock him as he wove. At last his visage pale and grim lights with the laughter of the Pit. The Devil comes and praises it, and lays a wreath of fire on him. “ Well hast thou wrought, O Florentine! Thy work hath gathered in its spell The Daughters of the Lords of Hell, the Goddess-goats, the Women swine! “ These shall adore it age by age; to these shall it give lust and force, Absolve their spirits of remorse, and make …
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